From the producers of the movie Inside Story comes a feature-length film, The Lucky Specials, following a guitarist and his friends on their journey to create a new musical sound and catapult their small-time band to the big stage.
The Lucky Specials are a cover band in a dusty town in southern Africa. Mandla (Oros Mampofu, Skeem Saam) is a miner by day and plays lead guitar for The Lucky Specials by night. He dreams of making it big in the music industry.
When tragedy strikes, the band, Mandla and their friend Nkanyiso (Sive Mabuya) struggle to hold everything together.
Mampofu and Mabuya are joined by director Rea Rangaka (Ode in Blood) and a cast that includes musician Blondie Makhene as Mandla's mentor Bra Easy; Richard Lukunku (Thina Sobabili), Thomas Gumede (A Place Called Home) and Fulu Mugovhani (Ayanda) as Mandla's bandmates; and Linda Sebezo (Gauteng Maboneng) as a businesswoman who threatens to make The Lucky Specials' dreams fall apart.
| CHANNEL |
SABC1 |
| PREMIERE |
3 December 2017 |
| TIMESLOT |
Sunday, 21h00 |
| REPEATS |
None |